See also:SIR NATHANIEL See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:WRAXALL (1751-1831)
, See also:English author, was See also:born in See also:Queen's Square, See also:Bristol, on the 8th of See also:April 1751
.
He was the son of a Bristol See also:merchant, Nathaniel See also:Wraxall, and his wife See also:Anne, See also:great niece of See also:Sir See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Thornhill the painter
.
He entered the employment of the See also:East See also:India See also:Company in 1769, and served as See also:judge-See also:advocate and paymaster during the expeditions against Guzerat and Baroche in 1771
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In the following See also:year he See also:left the service of the company and returned to See also:Europe
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He visited See also:Portugal and was presented to the See also:court, of which he gives a curious See also:account in his See also:Historical See also:Memoirs; and in the N. of Europe he made the acquaintance of several Danish nobles who had been exiled for their support of the deposed Queen See also:Caroline See also:Matilda, See also:sister of See also:George III
.
Wraxall at their See also:suggestion undertook to endeavour to persuade the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king to See also:act on her behalf
.
He was able to secure an interview with her at Zell in See also:September 1774
.
His exertions are told in his See also:Posthumous Memoirs
.
As the queen died on the 11th of May 1775, his schemes came to nothing and he complained that he was out of See also:pocket, but George III. took no See also:notice of him for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time
.
In 1775 he published his first See also:book, Cursory Remarks made in a Tour through some of the See also:Northern Parts of Europe, which reached its See also:fourth edition by 1807, when it was renamed A Tour See also:Round the Baltic
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In 1777 he travelled again in See also:Germany and See also:Italy
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As he had by this time secured the patronage of important See also:people, he obtained a complimentary lieuterant's See also:commission from the king on the application of See also:Lord See also:Robert See also:Manners, which gave him the right to See also:wear See also:uniform though he never performed any military service
.
In this year he published his Memoirs of the See also:Kings of See also:France of the See also:Race of See also:Valois, to which he appended an account of his tour in the Western, See also:Southern and Interior Provinces of France
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In 1778 he went again on his travels to Germany and Italy, and accumulated materials for his Memoirs of the Courts of See also:Berlin, See also:Dresden, See also:Warsaw and See also:Vienna (1799)
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In 1780 he entered See also:parliament and sat till 1794 for See also:Hinton in See also:Wiltshire, Ludgershall and See also:Wallingford, in See also:succession
.
He published in 1795 the beginning of a See also:History of France from the See also:Accession of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry III. to the See also:Death of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XI V.,which was never completed
.
Little is known of his later years except that he was made a See also:baronet by the See also:prince See also:regent in 1813
.
His Historical Memoirs appeared in 1815
.
Both they and the Posthumous Memoirs (1836) are very readable and have real historical value
.
Wraxall married See also:Miss Jane Lascelles in 1789, and died suddenly at See also:Dover on the 7th of See also:November 1831
.
His See also:grandson, Sir F
.
C
.
Lascelles Wraxall (1828-1865), was a See also:miscellaneous writer of some See also:note
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See See also:preface to The Historical and Posthumous Memoirs of Sir N
.
W
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Wraxall, by H
.
B
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See also:Wheatley (See also:London, 1884)
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